Aleksandar Diklic

Belgrade, the Eternal City : a Sentimental Journey Through History

Radio Televizija Srbije, 2015. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. 9788692005336 Pen inscription on half title page, contents otherwise clean and bright, firmly bound. Issued without a jacket. 575 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; ISBN/EAN: 9788692005336. Inventory No: dscf11338.

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Keywords: BZDB229 History; Belgrade the Eternal City a Sentimental Journey Through History Aleksandar Diklic

Emma Donoghue

Frog Music SIGNED

Picador, 2014. First Edition, Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Fine. Signed by Author. SIGNED by the author. First Edition, first printing. Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages, small nick to fore edge of p. 57,; clean bright jacket, "Signed Copy" sticker to front. This is another smart and finely wrought consideration of parenthood, further proof of Donoghue's significant skill as an author -- Alex Preston - Observer 416 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Signed by Author. Inventory No: dscf11836.

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Emma Donoghue

Learned By Heart SIGNED

Picador, 2023. First Edition, Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Fine. 9781035017768 Signed by Author. Signed by the author. First edition, first printing. Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages, slight wear to upper closed page block, beautiful decorated fore edge; slight wear to jacket. Donoghue's prose is beautiful and beautifully controlled. Simply and without a shred of sentimentality, she evokes a relationship that is convincing and exquisitely touching. - The Guardian 336 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Signed by Author. ISBN/EAN: 9781035017768. Inventory No: dscf11841.

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Stephen Downes

Music and Decadence in European Modernism: The Case of Central and Eastern Europe

Cambridge University Press, 2010. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. 9780521767576 Pencil underlining and annotations to the first two chapters, slight wear to covers. Decadence is a crucial yet often misunderstood aspect of European modernism. This book demonstrates how decadence as an idea, style or topic informs Central and Eastern European music of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Combining close analysis with hermeneutic interpretation and cultural critique, Stephen Downes examines works by composers including Wagner, Richard Strauss, Scriabin, Rachmaninov, Mahler and Bartók, considering structural and expressive forms of decay, deformation, mannerism, nihilism, sickness and convalescence. Drawing upon critical and cultural theory, these musical works are contextualized, relating the relationship of music and musical discourse to wider cultural discourses. The study will enhance the understanding of musical forms and aesthetics for the reader. Exploring crucial aspects of modernism and the place of music in the development and diversity of decadence, Downes refines and redefines our understanding of musical modernism. 386 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Music; ISBN/EAN: 9780521767576. Inventory No: dscf11237.

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Keywords: BZDB229 Music; Music and Decadence in European Modernism The Case of Central and Eastern Europe Stephen Downes

Maureen Duffy

Henry Purcell SIGNED

Fourth Estate, 1994. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. 9781857020984 Signed by Author. SIGNED by the author. First Edition, first printing. Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages, foxing to upper edge as shown in image; slight creasing to jacket edges. A biography of Henry Purcell using documentary evidence, gleaned from an investigation of original documents and sources. Maureen Duffy's writing aims to capture the sights, sounds and the flavour of 17th-century London, the city Purcell never left. 300 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Signed by Author. ISBN/EAN: 9781857020984. Inventory No: dscf11839.

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Keywords: BZDB229 Biography & Autobiography; Henry Purcell SIGNED Maureen Duffy

Neville Duke

Test Pilot.

Grub Street, 1992. First Edition, Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. 9780948817632 Clean unmarked pages, firmly bound; slight handling marks to rear of jacket. The name of Neville Duke is well known in aviation circles, not only as a successful wartime pilot, but also as a peacetime test pilot with the Hawker Aviation Company. This is the story of his career. Originally published in 1953, this edition has been extensively revised and expanded. B&W photos. 196 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN/EAN: 9780948817632. Inventory No: dscf11166.

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David Dunaway

How Can I Keep from Singing: Pete Seeger

McGraw-Hill, 1982. Softcover. Good Condition. 9780070181519 Curling to front cover and some page corners, a little grubby here and there, clean pages. This is one of the best biographies I have read. Wonderfully well written, it reveals the momentous trials and tribulations, and the miraculous achievements, of this great warrior of the folk scene. (Reader review) B&W photos. 386 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN/EAN: 9780070181519. Inventory No: dscf10503.

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Keywords: BZDB229 Biography & Autobiography; How Can I Keep from Singing Pete Seeger David Dunaway

Stuart Durant

Christopher Dresser

John Wiley & Sons, 1993. Softcover. Fine Condition. 9781854901873 Clean bright glossy interior, light handling wear to covers. The product of many years of research, this detailed study contains much new and revealing biographical material. Although many of Dresser's designs have become well known, his thinking on design has never been seen before in relation to the intellectual infrastructure and his complex era. The interaction between his botanical ideas and design is examined in considerable detail. His training in design is similarly studied in depth. Detailed notes amplify the text. Fully illustrated in colour and B&W. 144 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Art & Design; ISBN/EAN: 9781854901873. Inventory No: dscf10544.

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Edward Dusinberre

Beethoven for a Later Age: The Journey of a String Quartet SIGNED

Faber, 2016. First Edition, Hardcover. Fine Condition/Near Fine. 9780571317134 Signed by Author. SIGNED by the author. Clean unmarked pages, firm binding; slight wear to jacket. For the past 40 years, the Takacs Quartet (originally Hungarians, but long based in America) has been one of the most respected and celebrated chamber-music ensembles in the world. Dusinberre, an Englishman fresh out of music college, joined them in 1993 as first violinist. This account captures vividly his excitement and sense of discovery at tackling, above all, Beethoven’s mighty cycle of quartets. (Adam Lively The Times Books of the Year) 272 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Music; Signed by Author. ISBN/EAN: 9780571317134. Inventory No: dscf11191.

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Geoffrey Dutton

White on Black:The Australian Aborigine Portrayed in Art

Macmillan, 1974. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Near Fine. Firm binding , clean unmarked pages, rubbing/wear to jacket corners. White on Black is an art book that is also a social history. How the white Europeans saw the black Australians, roughly from 1770 to 1970, and set it down in pencil or ink or paints, is the fascinating measure of their understanding of Australia's Aborigines. Or lack of it - Geoffrey Dutton has included several horrific failures to recognize a common humanity. Savages, noble or debased; 'Indians'; 'A dying race'; Whitefellow's friend; Jacky and Witchetty; beings with 'a peculiar dignity and grace'. They are all here, to the credit or the shame not only of the artists but of all white Australians and Australian visitors. Included are paintings and drawings by artists who accompanied the early French expeditions; the sympathetic drawings of a convict artist like Charles Rodius; the dramatic but accurate oils of Thomas Baines. Many modern Australian artists are also represented - Drysdale, Nolan, Arthur Boyd and Brett Whiteley to name a few. 320 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Art & Design; Inventory No: dscf10797.

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Christopher Dyer

Making a Living in the Middle Ages: The People of Britain, 850-1520

Yale University Press, 2002. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. 9780300090604 Clean unmarked pages; slight bumping to top rear corner of jacket. A bright, well-kept copy. In his masterly new book, Christopher Dyer reviews our thinking about the economy of Britain in the middles ages. In analysing economic development and change, he allows us to reconstruct, often vividly, the daily lives and experiences of people in the past. The period covered here (850-1520) saw dramatic alterations in the state of the economy, and this account begins with the forming of villages, towns, networks of exchange and the social hierarchy in the ninth and tenth centuries, and ends with the inflation, population rise, and colonial expansion of the sixteenth century. This is a book about ideas and attitudes as well as the material world, and Dyer shows how people regarded the economy and how they responded to economic change. 406 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; ISBN/EAN: 9780300090604. Inventory No: dscf10276.

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A. Dynkin, N. Ivanova eds.

Global Perestroika: Transformations of the World Order

Ves Mir, 2015. Hardcover. Fine Condition. Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages. A well looked after copy. This book is an attempt to make sense of a changing world around us. Stationary state and evolution are interrelated variables of historical process. At times, however, evolution speeds up, ceases to be gradual and turns into a revolution (social, technological or scientific). The global economic crisis of 2007–2009, also referred to as “The Great Recession”, has brought the need for change into foreground. The global world order is amid sweeping changes. A single generation saw a bipolar world of the Cold War fall apart and the illusions and excesses of a unipolar world shatter. Now, according to one view, we are witnessing the emergence of a hierarchical polycentricity or, in another view, a world without poles or a dominant model. Are these views relevant? A new multi-factor tandem of the USA and China is arising. Will their relations stabilize or destabilize global development? 544 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Politics & Government; Inventory No: dscf11783.

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Keywords: BZDB229 Politics & Government; Global Perestroika Transformations of the World Order A Dynkin N Ivanova eds

Sylvia Earle

Chihuly Seaforms

Portland Press, 1995. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Good. 9780960838257 Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages; noticeable creased, torn area to top front of jacket-repaired with sellotape but still visible, short tear to rear upper edge, rubbing and creasing to jacket edges. Accompanying DVD is missing.The third and final installment in the individual small book series includes Seaforms, Venetians, Macchia, and Ikebana. Experience the individuality that each of these forms demand through breathtaking photographs. Specific only to one series, these titles chronicle the renowned artist?'s glass sculptures. Certainly compact in appearance but not in content, each book within the collection boasts more than 112 pages comprised of images reflective of the series after which they are named. Essays by Davira Taragin explore the individuality that makes Chihuly so unique. 112 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Art & Design; ISBN/EAN: 9780960838257. Inventory No: dscf11825.

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Keywords: BZDB229 Art & Design; Chihuly Seaforms Sylvia Earle

George Eberhart

Mysterious Creatures: A Guide to Cryptozoology - Volume 1, A-M

cfz, 2013. Softcover. Fine Condition. 9781909488076 Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages, slight wear to covers. 402 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Animals & Birds; ISBN/EAN: 9781909488076. Inventory No: dscf11501.

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Keywords: BZDB229 Animals & Birds; Mysterious Creatures A Guide to Cryptozoology Volume 1 AM George Eberhart

Edgar Cortright, ed

Apollo Expeditions to the Moon

NASA, 1975. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition. No jacket as issued, minor soiling to spine, slight handling wear, clean bright contents. A collection of 15 contemporary essays on the Apollo moon missions, together with many colour and black and white photos. This official NASA publication presents the thrilling inside story of the Apollo program. Written in direct, jargon-free language and featuring numerous illustrations, this compelling adventure features essays by engineers, administrators, and astronauts that recall the challenges associated with putting men on the moon. Covers the entire Apollo Program and includes dozens of photographs made during training and actual flights. 313 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Science & Technology; Inventory No: dscf11593.

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Keywords: BZDB229 Science & Technology; Apollo Expeditions to the Moon Edgar Cortright ed